Door-hanger



`(No Moda.) T. J. WEAVER.

DooR HANGER'.

No. 425,477. Patented Apr. 15, 1890.

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THOMAS J. WEAVER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,477, dated April15, 1890.

Application iiled'April l5, 1889. Serial No. 307.315, (No model.) i

hangers for sliding doors in which the door is' hung upon wheels orrollers ruiming on tracks or guides above the door; and it consists inthe novel construction and arrangement of parts, so that the door mayalways be easily made to run true andthe difficulties incident to thewarping and sagging of the parts of the building be overcome.

My object is to arrange the parts so that the tracks upon which the dooris hung and the door itself may be raised or lowered at pleasure and thetrack and door entirely removed when necessary, and to obtain by mynovel construction and arrangement of parts asimple, cheap,and eifcctivetrack and hanger.

In ,the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of thesliding door and hanger in position. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of thehanger through one of the wheels. Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevationof a part of the hanger.

Like letters of reference indicate identical parts in all the figures.

A is a sliding door, and B the track above the door, upon which the dooris hung.

C C are two wheels running on this track. These wheels are journaled inthe arms d d, which, with the connecting-bar o., form a yoke, to whichthe door is hung .by means of the hooks h Z1, arranged parallel witheach other. The wheels or pulleys are grooved, as shown in Fig. 2, sothat the bearingsurface is segmentalr in section, and the track isrounded to tit the grooved wheel. With this shape of grooved wheel thedoor will always han g true, although the track may become shifted outof line. The ordinary dat track and wheels with or without flanges may,however, be equally well used with my device. On the top of the door aplate gis screwed or otherwise fastened, 1n which holes are cut andrecesses made in the wood to receive the end of these hooks, which areheld in place by the edge of the plate, shown in Fig. 3, or pins may beprovided to hold the hooks. v

To the forward end of the hanger-yoke is pivoted the arm h, which isprovided at its outer end with a lug Z at right angles to the arm. Thislug Z is screw-threaded to receive the screw-bolt fm. This bolt m passesthrough the bracket n where the slotted head of the bolt S bears againstthe farther surface of the bracket. ened to the top of the door. Theopening for the bolt is beveled, as shown by the dotted lines, in orderto allow sufficient play for the bolt. The bolt and arm thus connect thedoor raised or lowered at pleasure by screwing up or up, the pivotedhooks I), retaining their parallelism, are swung farther out as thehangeryoke and door-bracket are brought nearer together, and thus thedoor is raised evenly as much as required. When it is desired for anypurpose to remove the door, it may be done at a moments notice byunscrewing the bolt and casting off the hooks b l). The track B is asimple beam of wood having` screwed upon the top edge an iron or hardwood rail formed to the grooved wheel running thereon. This track B isalso arranged to be raised and lowered or easily removed in thefollowing manner: A strip ot iron t is bolted or fastened to one end ofthe track or rail, and by this the end of the track is supported, theupper end of the iron'being hooked within the hook of a bolt or barfastened to thev joist above. At the other end a screw-bolt le passesthrough the track, the head of the bolt bearing against the undersurface of the track. This bolt engages with the threaded ear of thebracket p, which is fastened to the joist above bythe bolt lr. *In thisway one end of the track can be raised or lowered at pleasure and theltrack always kept horizontal. The track can also be re moved whenneeded by unscrewing the bolt and unhooking the other end of the rail.Instead of fastening the strip of iron iat the end of the track, myarrangement of hanging the door to the yoke c. with arms d comingunscrewin g the bolt. l/Vhen the bolt is screwed This bracket issecurely fastwith the hangerfyoke, and the door can be IOO advantageous.

down along one side of the track only, enables me to fasten myiron stripor supportingbracket to the side of the track at any convenient distancefrom the end and support the track by a hook from that point. Theadvantage to be gained from this is that as the distance between thebearing-points on the track is reduced a Very much lighter and cheaperbeam for the track can be used, inasmuch as the farther the distancebetween l'the supporting-points the heavier and more expensive the beamhas to be.

While the drawings show only a single track, it is obvious that a doubletrack can be also used with the door hung on a double set of Wheels.I/Vith a double track my arrangement of suspending the track isespecially The hanging bracket p being fastened to the joist by thesingle bolt r by loosening the nut which holds the bolt or by strikingwith a hammer the lbracket p can be turned on the bolt as a pivot, andthe tracks thus adjusted sidewise 'as Well as up and down. Indoor-hangers in ordinary use the door is usually hung on rollers at eachend of the door. The track upon which the door is suspended hastherefore to be made twice as long as the door. Of course the longer thetrack the more apt it is to Warp and twist. I overcome this difficultyby placing my rollers nearer the center of the door, so that the trackcan be made much shorter, thereby reducing the liability to Warp.

I am aware that it is not new to support tracks for sliding doors sothat they may be adj usted vertically, and do not claim, broadly, suchconstruction.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isr l. In adoor-hanger, the combination, With a sliding door, of an adjustabletrack above said door piVoted to the joists at or near one end, theother end arranged to be adjusted vertically and horizontally, rollersengaging said track, hanger-yoke hung thereon, and hooks attached tosaid yoke and supporting said door, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

2. In a door-hanger, the combination, With a sliding door, of anadjustable track above said door, the bar t, for supporting one end ofsaid track, said bar being fastened to the side of the track at anydistance from the end for the purpose of reducing the distance betweenthe bearings of the track, and ahook securely fastened to the joistabove supporting said bar, the other end of said track arranged to beadjusted vertically and horizontally, as described, Wheels mounted onsaid track, hanger-yoke hung thereon, and hooks pivoted in said yoke andsupporting the door, substantially as and for the -purpose described. 3.In a door-hanger, the combination, of the segmentally-grooved wheels CC, track rounded to fit said grooves,hangeryoke hung from said Wheelsand connecting them near the middle of the door, and parallel swinginghooks attaching the door to said hanger-yoke, substantially as and forvthe purpose described. n

THOMAS J. VEAVER.

XVitnesses:

ALFRED M. ALLEN, GEORGE HEIDMAN.

